| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: no universally correct setting for fsync |
| Date: | 2010-05-08 08:07:01 |
| Message-ID: | 4BE51BA5.70202@postnewspapers.com.au |
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On 8/05/2010 1:56 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> I never meant to suggest any statement in that section is factually
>> wrong; it's just all too rosy, leading people to believe it's no big
>> deal to turn it off.
>
> Yeah, that section is overdue for an update. I'll write some new text
> and post it to pgsql-docs.
It's probably worth mentioning that people who want to turn off fsync to
gain a performance boost should instead look at a RAID controller with a
BBU so they can safely enable write-back caching, getting most of the
benefits of fsync=off safely.
--
Craig Ringer
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